February 5, 2019
Meeting called to order at 5:30pm.
Present: Eileen Flug, Bruce Paul, Rob Hauck, June Getraer, Helen Garten, Ralph Krueger, Ron Holtz, Rick Jaffe, Yvonne Senturia, Liz Wong, and Karen Kleine.
1) President's comments: Eileen
a) Membership options: corporate/family: Committee needs a chair in order to begin deliberations.
b) State of the Town, Feb 10, 4-5:30pm: Request for $100 (from each of the two Westport Rotary clubs) in order to televise the event. Motion that Sunrise Rotary contribute $100 towards televising State of the Town (Ralph moved; Bruce seconded) passed unanimously
2) Minutes: Yvonne;
Motion to accept January minutes with edits including change of date (from November 29th to November 22nd) for the Wine Tasting (Liz moved; Rob seconded) passed unanimously.
3) Financials:
Presentation of January financials deferred to March board meeting, due to Jeff's absence.
4) Committee reports:
a) Charitable Giving: Helen
Multiple reminders to all who had either previously applied or expressed interest in receiving application information. Application submissions on par to equal or surpass 2018. Karen suggested placing a link to the online application on the Sunrise Rotary website. This request will be conveyed to the website administrator, Jeff.
b) Four-Way Test Contest: Mark
Contestants from Staples High School will deliver their speeches on Tuesday March 19th at 7:00pm at Staples High School.
c) Sunshine: June
Carole Rubenstein and John Krubski both making progress.
d) Membership: June
Abby Safirstein's application was discussed. Motion to accept her application for membership
(June moved; Rick seconded) was approved unanimously.
e) Speakers: Ralph
In lieu of a speaker, at the Friday February 8th breakfast, three new members will talk for 5-7 minutes each about why they joined: Seth Block, Brian Nathanson and Mike Mombello. Richard Epstein will speak on February 15th.
Ron suggested a Trumbull Rotary member who could help with a list of potential speakers, and Eileen will email local artist Anne Chernow about presenting.
f) Hands-on: Rob and Bruce
Recent food drive collected 128 boxes, 31 bags and $921.80. Many volunteers came out in the cold to help. There will be a committee meeting on Friday to plan for the rest of the year, as well as a photo op with Rob and Bruce delivering the $921.80 to Jeff Weiser.
g) Duck Race Prep: June
The next meeting will be February 6th. Brian Nathanson has agreed to chair land ops.
h) Youth Services: Pat.
Hoping to make some progress on Interact. Some difficulty getting students for Student-of-the-Month to send in their applications. Ron reported that district may have additional space for more RYLA participants.
i) International: Rick:
Our District Managed Grant has been approved. There were new rules on matching funds per club per year. $13,500 will go to Tree of Life for covered pavilion that will function as a meeting area, lunch room and community center. Our club raised funds ourselves for tables and chairs to go in the pavilion.
Meeting adjourned at 6:20pm
Respectfully submitted,
Yvonne Senturia, Secretary
